The Sohma's Have A Party
Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits basket or any of the characters.
Chapter 2: Setting Up
Tohru woke up early to her alarm and ran down the hall to Kyo's room. She knocks on the door and she gets a "What the hell do you want?"
"Come on Kyo! It's time to start getting ready for the party!" She called through the door.
He appeared minutes later shirtless and in rumpled pajama pants. He looked pissed off and she blushed.
"If you don't really want to help, you don't have to. I'm sorry I woke you up!" She mumbled getting redder by the minute. She backed away and went down the hall to Yuki's room.
"Wait! Tohru! I don't, mean I didn't want to help! I just meant that you shocked me. Usually I'm up before you." He looked down. "Sorry."
"Oh no! I'm sorry! I should've thought of you!" She did her awkward little bow and shuffled down the hall towards Yuki's room.
"Yuki? It's time to get up." She said quietly while knocking on his door. "Can I come in?"
"..." Was all she got. She walked in and found him sprawled out tangled in his sheets. She smiled and went over to shake him. Unfortunately when she put her hand on his bare shoulder and called his name softly, he grabbed her into a hug. Her eyes got wide as the purple smoke emitted from the bed. She scrambled away and stood up to find a dazed rat.
"Miss Honda? How.... Why..... Huh?" He said looking at her confused.
"Well, I came to get you up so we could start decorating for the party tonight. When I came in and tried to shake you awake..." She trailed off trying to think if she should say that she tripped and landed on him or the truth. "I tripped and accidentally landed on you. I'm so so so so so sorry!" She said bowing.
"It's alright. I'll be fi-"He was cut off by the smoke poofing again and a naked Yuki stood on his bed.
"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!" Tohru screamed as she turned around embarrassed. Her head was against the wall while Yuki put on his tidey whiteies and pants, plus a shirt.
"Miss Honda, you can look now." He was dressed in his usual attire. Silk expensive shirt and straight legged boring pants.
"She turned and was red faced. "Do you have a costume?" She asked realizing she didn't even mention that earlier.
"Of course. I just don't want to ruin it while I work." He replied smiling.
"Okay, good. I forgot to ask everyone." She explained.
"Well, let's get to work."
"Okay! First I have to go get Shigure." She said running off. She came back a second later with her floor plan of the inside. "I drew this up last night. I hope you and Shigure can do this."
"What's Kyo going to do?" He asked.
"He's going to carve pumpkins. I didn't think you wanted to work with him. Hatori is coming later this after noon to help. Then everyone is going to come around 6:30." She explained before disappearing again down the hall to the inu's room.
"Shigure-san? It's time to wake up. May I come in?" She asked softly knocking on his door.
"..." Was all she got again. She walked in and found him lying there....in...in...boxers with dogs on them. Her eyes got wide and she started to blush like a cherry, then tomato, then fire engine color and so on. She shook her head after a while and went over to his bedside.
"Shigure? It's time to-" She was cut short by a arm slung around her neck. She gasped as it pulled her to a almost naked body. "Shigure?" She questioned before the poof!
There sat a happy dog wagging his tail and tongue lolling about. He shook his but and pranced down off the bed.
"Shigure? I j-j-just wanted to make sure you got up so you could help Yuki set up the decorations." She said. "Could you do that after you got dressed?"
"Of course my little flower!" He sang prancing around his room.
Later that day. About mid way through.
"Happy Halloween!" Hatori said coming into the house. "Tohru, do you need help in the kitchen, or do you want me to help.... No I think I'll help in the kitchen," he said glancing at who was in the living room. He didn't want Shigure bothering him, yet.
"Okay! I'm just making the chocolate puffs." She said as he came in. She had flower in her hair and there was a smear of chocolate across her face. Her smile was on full blast though.
Hatori looked over at the table and saw a disgruntled Kyo surrounded by pumpkins. Half of them carved, half not. He looked at Kyo closer and saw the knife wasn't moving and the reddish eyes were cut to a certain brunette. He smiled a bit and went over to Tohru.
"What can I do?" He asked.
"Could you please Kyo scoop the pumpkins and then could you separate the seeds so I can bake them?" She said looking at him.
He raised an eyebrow, but answered. "Yes of course." Then he felt stupid for answering like that to a teenager. He shook his head and bent over his task.
"So, Kyo, you're really working hard on that pumpkin." Hatori said sarcastically after he noticed the cat still hadn't moved from his stalker string position.
"What?" He said shaking his head. "What are you smirking at?" He snapped getting back to his pumpkin.
"How's it going over there?" Tohru asked coming over to collect the seeds Hatori had done up.
"Great. Kyo's pumpkins look really good. He's working on that one for a while now. He seems to want to make it perfect." He smiled at the cat.
"Oh Kyo, don't work to hard! You don't have to make them perfect. If you don't want to you don't have to even help." She quickly burst out.
Kyo rolled his eyes and put a hand on her head to keep her from exploding on the spot. She stopped and looked at him. "I do want to help. Stop worrying. I'm having fun." He said smiling his rare smile at him. She smiled back and went back to her cooking.
Let's check in on the other two decorators, shall we?
"What are you doing?! That's suppose to go over there!" Yuki cried at the dog set up the table on the left side of the room where the music section was supposed to go. "The food goes on the right side of the room and the music goes on the left. No the other way around!"
"NO it isn't!" Shigure shouted back waving the floor plan in Yuki's face. Yuki grabbed the piece of paper and flipped it right side up. "Oh." Shigure muttered. He picked up the table, which was quite heavy, and moved it to the other side of the room.
The room looked great. It was almost done. The walls were covered with black cloth, floor to ceiling, splattered with glow-in-the-dark paint. The ceiling was covered in low draping spider webs, with a few fake spiders in them. The room was going to be lit with candles, once they were done, hung from the ceiling in a chandelier. The food was going to be set up buffet style and the music was going to be set up in the left corner. Everyone was going to bring their favorite CD's and then they'd have the ever-famous karioke. That wasn't going to be offered until later, much, much later. The rest of the house was turned into a spook house and the clues for the game were hidden by Tohru earlier that evening. The clues were for the game of Clue they would play later. Everyone was designed a character, (Hana and Uo know about the curse in this one), by their animal or for Uo and Hana, she made them special.
Soon after everyone was done and the pumpkins were set outside and the Carmel apples were being set out along with the cookies, the guests arrived. Together in packs. Kisa and Hiro came with a disgruntled Haru and hyper Momiji. Aya came with Kagura and, to everyone's surprise, Akito. (Don't worry he'll behave, almost).
"Hello.... Everyone" Tohru kind of fell when she saw who was here.
"Hello Miss Honda. I hope you don't mind me coming. I felt it was a little rude of my entry to come here uninvited, but since I got over my cold so quickly, I felt it was necessary to come and enjoy the party" He finished giving her a slight bow.
Hana an Uo came in next and instantly floated to Tohru's side for protection. They looked at the other guests and found to their dislike that Akito was staring at Tohru somewhat hungrily. They both glared at him and Hana sent sparks down to the tips of her hair. He looked discouraged for a moment, but quickly regained his composure.
"Alright everyone, let the game BEGIN!" She said before her eyes rolled up in her head and she passed out on the floor.
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